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Preparation of Whitewash.

Whitewash is one of the most valuable
articles in the world when properly ap-
piled. 1t not only prevents the decay Of
wood, but conduces greatly to the health.
fulness Of all buildings, whether of
wood or stone. Outbuildings and fences,
when not painted, should be supplied
once or twicea year with a good-coat Of
whitewash, which should be prepared in
the following way: Take clean, water
tight barrel or other suitable cask, and
put into it half bushel of lime. Slake
it by pouring water over it boiling hot,
and in sufficient quantity to cover it five
inches deep, and stir it briskly till
thoroughly slaked. When the shaking
has been thoroughly effected, dissolve in
water and add two pounds of sulphate
of zinc and one of common salt; these
will cause the wash to harden, and pre-
vent its cracking, which gives an un'
seemly appearance to the work.
If desirable, a beautiful cream color
may be communicated to the above wash
by adding three pounds of yellow ochre,
or good pearl or lead color by the addi
ton of lamp, vine or ivory black: Fol
fawn color, add four pounds of umber,
Turkish or American (the latter-is is the
cheapest), one pound of common lamp.
black. For common stone color, add
four pounds of raw lumber and two
pounds of lamp-black. This wash may
be applied with a common whitewash
brush, and will be found much superior,
both in appearance and durability, tc
the common whitewash.- Cincinnati
Commercial- Gazette.
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William R. Stocking, Superintendentt T. OF
the Workhouse, BlackwelIs Island Ne"
York city, has sent Mayor He"s11 to.C;uo, ssaUe
the eS Sunday T law by Closing the city's saloons
on that day He says that most of those who
are arr sent sent to the Workhouss are committed on
a charge of drunkenness or disorderly CON
duct. and shows that the number OF persons
sent there during the past month was thirty
six per cent. less than the number Tor tne
previous month.
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TEMPERANCE.
The Gospel Temperance ST

The Gospel Temperance Ship.
See the wake of light,
And canvas as white
As the foam on the waves of the seal
The swift-sailing ship
Is making her trip
Round the world, and the winds blowing free
A flag is made fast
To the tapering mast
'Tis the flag that will conquer and save;
The cross and the stars,
More potent than Mars,
Fly with the white winged ship on the wave
On deck, firm and true,
Stand Captain and crew.
"Stand by the mast!" the commander cries;
And the canvas crowds
Like clouds upon clouds,
And winds Of heaven come down from thi
skies.
AL hail to the ship
That's making her tfip
To every land that the SUN shines ont
Her banners Of light
Will Danish the night.
Many fight for the right she has won
With Faith at the helm.
No storm can o'erwhelm
Our ship. He who masters the sea
Winds and waves obey,
As they did that day
When he calmed the storm-swept Galilee.
May fair winds blow
The sails white as snow
In the soft light of the guiding star,
And speed the good ship
That is making her trip
To the nations anear and afar!
George W. Bungay, in National Adoocate.
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Tho Gain OF Loss.


"Thsnks bc unto Thee. O Lord. for
all our dear ones who arc safe at homes
having passed over the river and en-.
tered into the rest that remaineth tor
Thy people,"
The words formed part of tho prayer
preceding the sermon, and my heart
thrilled in response to the minister's
thought, as memory quickly gathered
into a shining cluster the names OF my
own beloved who are no longer in this
world, but who have taken up their
abode forever in the city OF God.
beautiful city, built above" One by
one they are going to it, who walk as
pilgrims here. One by ono we arc going
to it, we know not how soon, and life
takes on deeper meanings and clothes
itself in falrer colors, because every day
is stepping stone to Heaven.
AS life goes on, with its many changes,
it comes to pass often, that the aged
grow very lonely. Their boys and girls
arc a married aud gone. They are ab-
s,rbed in life's many interests, and
though they love their parents
still, they have not much time
to spend with them. By-and-b5, the
one who stays with mother
is not tho hid dle-aged, commonplace
business man who was her Ned, or her
Johnny, long ago. She half wonders
sometimes if he ever was indeed her
boy, to be kissed and petted ard child
den. She loves him and leans on him,
and he loves her, but does not abide
with her, as the baby Goes, who went
away many and many year since. The
little child who fell asleep in Jesus, Is
the child forever in her tender memory,
and she hears tho music of its lispiEg
voice and the patter of its tiny feet as
she sits Jy herself in the gloaming, ana
the evening star comes out i'll the sky.
Precious and vital is that gain OF loss
which is outlined in the words of Scrip
ture: "From patience experience, and
from experience hope "Because thou
hast been my help, therefore in tho
shadow of thy wings will 1 rejoice"
Help implies need. We realize the
strength of helping hand when We are
in extremity. So it is after loss and af-
ter sorrow, that We reach the rich fruit
age of confidence in Him who came
closest when We wanted Him most.
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Butter-Making, Then and Now.


No branch of rural industry has met
with greater change in its processes dur
ing the last twenty years than butter
making. Then the milk was set in shall
low pans upon pantry shelves, in the
cellar, or in rare cases in properly con-
structed milk house. The dash-churn
was almost universally in use, even when
dog-power was employed. The process
of churning was continued until the but
ter was "garncred" in mass, which was
then lifted from the churn to a huge
wooden bowl, and the subsequent work
ing and sailing were laborious and
damaging to the texture of the product.
The Introduction of improved creamers
and improved churns has changed all
that. BY means of the former, the milk
is set in deep cans, cut off from all con-
tact with the outside atmosphere and any
possible odors or impurities. In the
modem churns the butter is separated
from the other constituents of the cream
without breaking the globules, and the
process is arrested while it is in the granu-
lar stage. The buttermilk is easily
drawn off, and most of the subsequent
working and sailing are done in the
churn. 1t is easier and cheaper to make
uniformly good butter by the modern
processes than it was to make tolerable
butter by the old and uuscientiic meth
ods.-American Agriculturist.
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Effect Of Root Pruning.

On a certain farm one year ago road
way had been cut through an apple
orchard, and to obviate a steep grade
the soil was dug away between two rows
in some places to the depth of p feet.
The earth removed was not piled up
against the trees, where the double COW
ering of some roots and exposure of
others might have killed them. 1t was
taken away and spread for road bed on
the lower part of the orchard in line with
the road. Now this spring, where the
deepest cuts were made through the
bank, the trees on either side are full of
bloom, while the balance of the orchard
shows only moderate amount of BIOS
SONS. Probably the trees were consid-
erably injured by this severe treatment,
but if properly manured now they will
recover and be more valuable for it ever
after. The trees on the bank had previ-
ously been unproductive, so it was not
merely the reduction of excessive growth
which caused them to blossom. Severe
root pruning, even to the extent of en-
dangering the tree, is therefore admis-
sible in cases of continued barrenness,
but such cases should be literally treated
afterward. Perhaps it was root pruning
and maauring that was intended in the
scriptural parable of the owner of an un-
productive tree, who resolved to give it
further trial by digging about and
dunging it. At least the best science of
modern fruit growing could give no bet
ter formula than this for changing the
character of tree that had long been
barren. Cultirdt0r.
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ing ears, Iow-hanglng head, diarrhea,
vomiting, rapid breath, and an aversion
to light, the hog is far on the road to
death
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~Asleep In Jesus, blessed Hsep,
From which none ever wake to weep;
A calm and undisturbed repose,
Uninjured by the last Of foes.
"Asleep In Jesus, far from thee
Thy kindred and their graves may be;
But there is still a blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep"
You have seen enough for one morning. No
one can successfully examine more than five
ing seen this cluster Of Divine Raphaels-
Stephen gazing into heaven; Stephen looking
at Christ; Stephen stoned; Stephen in his
dying prayer; Stephen asleep.
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RecipeS.


RICE WAFFLEs.-Boil half a pint OF
rice and let it get cold, mix with il one
fourth pound of butter and little salt.
Stir in one and one-half pints of -four
beat five eggs separately; add yolks, to-
gether with one quart of milk, lastly the
well-beaten whites. Beat well and bake
at once in waffle irons.
TOMATO SALAD.-Cut six ripe toma
toes into slices and remove all the SEEDS
rub a dish with onion and pour into il
mixture of oil and vinegar lin the pro-
portion of two spoonfuls Of oil to one o
vinegar), sprinkle on the tomatoes pep.
per and salt, and leave them in the dress
ing two hours. They will then be ready
to serve.
SYRUP OF CHERRIES somt
fine ripe cherries, take off the stalks
crush the fruit and leave them in thii
state for twenty-four hours. Then straiI
the juice through sieve by squeezing
the cherries, and afterward through
jelly-bag. When the liquor is very cleaI
weigh it, and in pint of juice dissolve
two pounds of white sugar; then put ii
into a preserving pan; boil up once, ano
take off the scum; strain it and put it into
small bottles.
HAM CRoQUETTEs.-Take one-quartel
of a pound of grated ham and mix with
it two ounces Of mashed potatoes; melt
piece of butter in saucepan; add the
mince, season with little pepper, avery
little stock, little powdered sweet herb
and chopped parsley; stir until quite hot.
then add, off the fire, the yolks of two
eggs; lay the mince on plate to cool
make it into croquettes; roll them in eggs
and then in brown bread crumbs, and fry
in hot lard; serve with fried parsley.
How TO Boil ONIoNs.-To ever,
quart of onions you will need quart OF
cold water and half tablespoonful o;
salt. Boil slowly for two hours, theI
drain in a colander and let them gel
cold. Make sauce with tablespoonful
of butter, the same of -four and one-haE
pint of milk; rub butter and fiom
thoroughly together and add a littl'
black pepper; boil the milk and pour il
over the flour and butter, and stir all tht
time to keep smooth; put the onions il
the sauce and let them remain until thu
sauce boils; the sauce ought to be verJ
thick when served.
SYRUP OF CURRANTs.-Take two
pounds of red currants not quite ripe;
one pound of cherries rather ripe, ano
half pound OF raspberries; take out thu
stones from the cherries; crush the whole
together, and when we'll mixed leave th'
fruits in stone or crockery vessel fol
twenty-four hours. Then put the whole
in q wire gauze sieve and squeeze th'
fruits with the hands; place over thu
sieve a napkin well riused and strain th'
juice through it; leave it to run itself,
without pressure, for it should be very
clear. Then take the strained liquor
and to each pint of juice put two pound!
of best white sugar, pour it into
preserving pan and set it on the fire.
After the third or fourth boiling tax.
the syrup off the fire, skim it and pour
it into pan or jug, and when cold puI
it into small bottles; well cork them and
keep them in a cellar or some cool place
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Healthy Hogs.

It has been pretty definitely proved
that filth, impure water, and general
want of care are largely conducive to cpl
denies of so-called hog cholera, num-
Der Of diseascs-iung, intestinal, and
blood diseases-going under that name
when more than usually fatal. In view
of the fact that water-courses and ponds
are especially low this season, owing to
the drouth, those who have droves of
hogs should be especially careful that
swine do not get water from these
sources. Such water will be more than
Likely to carry the germs of malignant
disease. The better plan would be to use
only the water of wells, even at the ex-
pense of considerable extra labor. In
addition to this, great care should be
used that all the surroundings be kept
perfectly clean. No less important is a
diversity of food. The man who places
his dependence on corn as diet for hogs,
old aud young, is generally the first to
suffer when malignant diseases become
epidemic. Swine is not only gregarious
in their habits, but they are dependent
upon a variety of food, and cannot be
kept on one single article even as we'll as
other farm animals. The sagacious man
will easily understand the necessity Of
changing the grain food of swine, as well
as supplying daily quantity of vegetable
food. This may consist of any plants the
hogs will eat, including clover. So far
as roots are concerned artichokes and po-
tatoes will be indicated, and if swine can
be allowed to gather these for themselves
so much the better. At the first symp-
toms of disease the feeder should look to
the Surroundings and remove all the ami
mails to clean pastures, separating the
sick from the well. When we find droop-
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Petroleum V. Nasby-D. R. Locke, editor
of the Toledo Ohio Blade-says: "a pohti-
clan may safely snub the church, but he grow
els in the dust before the wielder of the beer
mallet.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Rules for the Orchard.

Three rules in regard to the operation
of pruning an orchard, and they will be
short ones:
Prune annually. If judiciously done
none but small branches will be required
to be cut, and the wounds of those will
soon heal.
Make clean cut and pare smooth with
a sharp knife the edges of the wound.
This will greatly facilitate the healing
process and preserve the tree from decay.
When the habit of the tree will allow
take out the leading shoot at the height
where you design to have the branches
spread A horizontal branch will pro-
duce more fruit than an upright one.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Tho Ear OF Faith.

81 hear the sound of abundance of
rain" What an ear had Elijah Not 8
speck or cloud above the hori on. For
three and half long years that brazen
sky had not let fall a single drop of rain
upon the parched fields, or distilled a
drop of dew upon the grass. Did he hear
the rain pattering down upon the blue
Mediterranean Did he hear the storm
wind roaring on the far off Adriatica
Did he hear it lashing the Egean into
fury and breaking on all its thousand
isles7 No; his was the ear of faith.
Hast thou decided for Coda The
blessing is imminent The springs start
the fountains begin to flow, the famine
Is over. Tune thine ear and prepare
thine heart. Look for the blessing.
Look in the right direction. Clouds
arise from the sea. Elijah did not look
toward the desert. From thence nc
rains came. If you have become Q
Christian, don't look for Gods blessing
Immediately upon your merchandise.
That may come, and it may not. But
look in the right direction; look to your
higher spiritual self. Look often; Ego
again, 60 seven times" and first you
shall see speck. "Flrst speck, and
then vulture; then the air is filled
with pinions." First speck, and then
cloud of mercy.
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Labor and the Drink-Habits.


In thoughtful article on " Drink and La
cate says:
Labor reformers contend that the desti-
titution and want Of the poor are caused by
inadequate wages The standing formula by
which they express their chief grievance is:
'Wage workers do not get fair share Of the
joint product Of capital and labor This
means simply that wages are too low, and Is
doubtless true. But one cause Of low wages
is the drinking-habits Of workmen. Sober
labor has to compete with the labor of drink
ing men, and this not only lowers the general
average of wages, but actually makes the
wages Of sober men less than they would be
If all were sober. A witness before the Sem
ate Committee testified, that drinking work
men keep wages down to the rate they them
selves can command. They are obliged to
sell their half-drunken labor at the lowest
figure, and when pressure comes they have no
reserves, and so must 60 into the market and
accept what they can obtain The drink
habits of working people also lessen wages in
another way: wages depend upon the demand
for labor, which, in turn, depends upon the de-
mand for the products of labor, which in
turn, depends upon the purchasing power OF
the people, The enormous sums wasted by the
poor in drink would, If not so spent, be used by
them to purchase the products of legitimate
industry, and would greatly increase the de-
mand for these products, and thus the demand
for and price Of labor would be increased
The waste in drink by the rich and wel-to-do
classes does not tend in this way to reduce
wages, because they have the means to buy
all they want of other things. But two-thirds
of the 5000, 600, 900 drink-bill of this country,
or $500, ,OOO,OO0, is paid by wage-workers, and
this is all needed by them to procure food,
clothing, fuel and homes, with whatever is
necessary to make them comfortable and
attractive; and the greater part of it would,
but for their drink be spent for these
purposes Add to the $500, 100000 they pay
Tor drink as much more lost in time, wasted
by drinking men, and the sum, 81, ,OO, 900, 600
would still be below the actual amount annu
ally withdrawn from the purchasing power
of the poor and from the industries that fur
nish labor and wages In the light Of these
facts it is clear that what is called over-pro-
production is largely due to the under-con-
Sumption Of people Impoverished by drink.
It is equally clear that wages are very ag-
preciably diminished by this under-consump
lion
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How Men Drink Farms.

The PLowmon, in characteristic way,
tells how men ''drink farms" -.
NV homeless friend with the chromatlc
nose, while you are stirring up the. sugar in
that ten-cent glass Of gin, let me give you
fact to wash it down with. You say you
have for years longed for the free, indeEend-
life of the farmer, but have never BEEN able
to get enough money together to buy farm.
But that is Just where you are mistaken. FOR
several years you have been drinking good
improved farm at the rate of one hundred
square feet gulp. If you doubt this state,
ment, figure it out yourself. An acre OF lana nd
contains forty-three thousand five hundred
and sixty square feet. Estimating, for con-
veniencs sake, the lands at 1856 per acre,
YOU will see that brings the land to just one
mill Der square foot, one cent for ten square
feet. Now pour the fiery dose, and imagine
you are swallowing strawberry patch. Call
in five of your friends and have them help
YOU gulp down that five hundred foot garden.
Get on a prolonged spree some day, and see
how long a time it requires to swallow
pasture large enough to feed cow. Put
down that glass Of gin: there's dirt IN lt-one
hundred square feet of good, rich dirt, worth
S43. Sc per acre.
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Best Fowls for Early Market.

Best Fowls for Early Market!
Good crosses are perhaps better than
the pure stock when raised for market
purposes alone, as they seem to grow
faster and generally make larger birds,
which point, of course, is always desira-
BILE to obtain. The breeder should, how
ever, be very careful to dispose of all the
half-bred stock at market time, for if they
are kept and allowed to grow up on the
place there is considerable liability of
their becoming mixed with the pure
stock, as they are oftentimes hard to
distinguish in looks, but the foreign
blood will most surely show itself sooner
or later. and generally when it is least
expected by the breeder. =.
To one who has not given the matter
much attention it would be surprising to
note the difference in the growth of the
different breeds during the earlier part of
their life. For instance such fowls as the
Houdans or any of the laying breeds will
grow very fast for the first month or two,
and generally mature earlier than the
larger breeds do, while on the other hand
the larger breeds of the Asiatic classes
are very sow in their growth for the first
month at least, but after that time they
seem to take jump and then continue to
grow remarkably fast until they are
fully matured. These large breeds are
undoubtedly the best for market pur-
poses when they are kept all the season
and sod during the fall and winter, but
my experience has been that they are not
the most profitable to raise for thcearliest
markets.
A cross between the two breeds will be
much better for early market, and will
partake some of the nature of both breeds.
Cincinnati Commercial.
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Something About Restrictive Laws.

Prohibitionists do not question the sincerity
of thousands of the misguided temperance re-
formers who favor High License as an a.
legged restrictive measure" nor is the Prohlol-
ton opposition due to any disposition to refuse
s'half a loaf" The simple ground OF the FRO
hibition opposition is this: High License, OF
any form of License, is not restrictive, out
positively strengthening to the saloon; Facos
indisputably prove this statement. PROOF tIa ~
q nut shell is seen in the fact that since GHe
license system has been operative IN tns
country, the consumption OF liquors Pr
capita has increased tenfold faster tnan Inc
population. The reason of the increase 10
that the license fee is an incentive 70 saies'
and the higher the fee the greater the Ia,
centive. TRe government tax OF ninety Genus
Der gallon is all excessively high zee, ouG slilce
its imposition the consumption OF liquors has
Increased from about four and half TO
twelve gallons per caplta.-Connect.cut
Home.
Win certain recent cases Of atrocious muf-
de, of prominent temperance men committed
with impunity by liquors-sellers in mind, the
burlington towa) Free Press, with biting
sarcasm, represents a prominent lawyer re-
plying to the question of en- Iowa citizen: Us
t murder to kill manF' eyes, in every IN
stance except when he is trying to suppress
the liquor traffic."